Comments on: Addiction Help Q & A: Is Methadone Treatment Stopping Addiction? http://blog.addictionhelpservices.com/views/2008/08/06/addiction-help-q-a-is-methadone-treatment-stopping-addiction/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:10:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Billie http://blog.addictionhelpservices.com/views/2008/08/06/addiction-help-q-a-is-methadone-treatment-stopping-addiction/#comment-737 Billie Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:14:49 +0000 http://blog.addictionhelpservices.com/views/2008/08/06/addiction-help-q-a-is-methadone-treatment-stopping-addiction/#comment-737 I'm one of "those people" on methadone. I was a bad IV drug user for 10 plus years. Finally 3 years ago a methadone clinic came to my town in the state of Maine. If this clinic had not come to my town I would not be alive today. When people are on methadone they can live productive lives. They can go to school, go to work or raise their families. While they are on drugs, they can do none of these things!! Yes the withdrawals of methadone are bad. But tell me, how bad do you think the withdrawals of heroin are??? Today I am a patient advocate at my clinic. I help other patients when they are starting out. Because believe me, IT TAKES A BIG PERSON TO ADMIT THEY NEED HELP!!! And that first step, when you decide to go on methadone, is a scary one. I can hold my head up high in my neighborhood. I no longer feel like a junkie! I owe this all to methadone. Tell me, have you or anyone close to you ever had a drug problem? Because if you had, you would understand why methadone, for some people, is the last and only hope!!! I’m one of “those people” on methadone. I was a bad IV drug user for 10 plus years. Finally 3 years ago a methadone clinic came to my town in the state of Maine. If this clinic had not come to my town I would not be alive today.

When people are on methadone they can live productive lives. They can go to school, go to work or raise their families. While they are on drugs, they can do none of these things!! Yes the withdrawals of methadone are bad. But tell me, how bad do you think the withdrawals of heroin are???

Today I am a patient advocate at my clinic. I help other patients when they are starting out. Because believe me, IT TAKES A BIG PERSON TO ADMIT THEY NEED HELP!!! And that first step, when you decide to go on methadone, is a scary one. I can hold my head up high in my neighborhood. I no longer feel like a junkie! I owe this all to methadone. Tell me, have you or anyone close to you ever had a drug problem? Because if you had, you would understand why methadone, for some people, is the last and only hope!!!

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